Israel’s ‘price tag’ terrorism has tactical political goals

Jonathan Cook | The National | Jun 22, 2012 Violent, so-called “price tag” attacks by Jewish settlers have become a staple of life for Palestinian communities over the past few months. The latest is the torching this week of a mosque in the village of Jaba, close to the city of Ramallah. Palestinians in areas […]

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#PalHunger | Occupation violates agreement, renews administrative detention of Hassan Safadi

[ 22/06/2012 – 09:28 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– According to Tadamon Foundation for Human Rights, the Israeli occupation authorities issued on Thursday a decision on renewing prisoner Hassan Zahi Al-Safadi’s period of detention for additional 6 months. Faris Abu Hassan, the lawyer for Tadamon Foundation, said that the Israeli military commander, at the request of […]

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Occupation forces attack citizens in Ain al-Hilweh in Jordan Valley, wound 5 incl 2 women

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 09:48 PM ] RAMALLAH,(PIC)– Five Palestinians were injured including two women, on Thursday, in Ainal-Hilweh in Wadi al-Maleh northern Jordan Valley during clashes with the Israeli forces who tried to confiscate a water tank. Local sources told PIC that the citizens have been subjected to severe beatings when soldiers surrounded the […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | June 22, 2012 | Medics: 1 killed as Israel bombs Gaza

Maan News Agency | June 22, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An Israeli airstrike on Friday killed one man in the central Gaza Strip, medics said. Israel warplanes bombed an area east of al-Bureij camp, signaling an end to an Egyptian-brokered truce reached Wednesday. Qassem Abdullah Ahmed, 24, was killed and two people were injured […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | Israeli break truce and kills resistance fighter Bassem Ahmed and wounds two

June 22, 2012 Ma’an reports 1 shaheed and 2 wounded in an Israeli attack on Bureij refugee camp (Central Gaza)  violating the truce. Name of the shaheed: Bassem Ahmed 29 years old. https://twitter.com/MaathMusleh/status/216182247496237056 Article by Maan News Agency | June 22, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An Israeli airstrike on Friday killed one man in the […]

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Deliberate Medical Neglect | A prisoner in Gilboa suffering from Mediterranean Fever

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 09:50 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC) — The prisoner Alaa Adib Abdul-Jabbar Shuraitah was suffering from symptoms of Familial Mediterranean Fever, Tadamon Foundation for Human Rights revealed. According to Ahmed Betawi, a researcher at Tadamon Foundation, the prisoner Shuraitah (33 years) has been suffering from Familial Mediterranean fever that is causing him […]

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IOA renews administrative detention of Manager of Health Work Committees Abu Ras for 3rd time

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 11:48 AM ] OCCUPIED JEUSALEM,(PIC)– The Israeli military court at the Ofer military detention center west of Ramallah renewed the administrative detention of Walid Abu Ras the Finance and Administration Manager for the Health Work Committees (HWC) for the third time running. The military court at Ofer informed Abu Ras, detained […]

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#GazaUnderAttack | June 22, 2012 | Israeli gunboats ‘shell Gaza beach’

Maan News Agency | June 22, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli gunboats shelled a beach in northern Gaza late Thursday night, witnesses said. The shelling caused two explosions but not injuries were reported, a Ma’an correspondent said. An Israeli military spokeswoman was not immediately familiar with the incident. The military wing of the Popular […]

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#VIDEO | Watch Israel’s lunatic soldiers shoot and even throw rocks at protester in Nabi Saleh

Jun 12, 2012 Video by tamimipress https://www.facebook.com/Tamimipresspage tamimi press nabi saleh 2012  

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Update for #Floriade2012 ‘Israeli Agriclutural Development’: Occupation seizes Jordanian agricultural equipment

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 11:02 AM ] AMMAN,(PIC)– A Jordanian official said that the Israeli occupation forces seized, on Thursday, agricultural equipment belonging to Jordanian farmers in Wadi al-Maleh area in the northern part of the Jordan Valley. The head of the local council in Wadi Al Maleh, Aref Daraghmeh, confirmed in a press statement […]

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Sit-in tent in Al-Khalil in solidarity with the strikers in PA prisons

[ PIC 22/06/2012 – 10:55 AM ] AL-KHALIL,(pic)– Dozens of PA prisoners’ families gathered, on Thursday, in a sit-in tent outside the abducted Osman Qawasmeh’s house in Al-Khalil in the southern West Bank. PIC reporter said that Qawasmeh family has set up a sit-in tent outside the house of their son who went on an […]

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PCHR Weekly Report: 10 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers this week

 Friday June 22, 2012 08:16 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 14– 20 June 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Palestinian women and children have been killed or wounded by Israeli settlers in […]

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#VIDEO | We are veteran Israeli combat soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories. These are our stories…

Video by BenHertzog on Jun 18, 2012 We are veteran Israeli combat soldiers who served in the Occupied Territories. Having witnessed and participated in abusive military actions, then realizing how it deteriorates our society’s basic moral code, we decided it is time to expose the everyday reality of both Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. We are […]

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#PalHunger | Another Palestinian political prisoner near death as the ‘battle of the stomachs’ rages

Posters in support of Akram Rikhawi by Ira Glunts on June 21, 2012 | Mondoweiss Where is the mass Palestinian non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation? That’s what those so-smug liberal journalists like Friedman and Kristof ask. However, when it comes they do not see it, if they do see it, they do not write […]

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Must Read: Beyond Compromise: Unifying the Palestinian voice ~ by @docjazzmusic

Friday, 22 June 2012 | Docjazz.com | By Dr. Tariq Shadid So, what exactly is the news? A new online web project? They come and go, don’t they? This is what might be going through your mind, if you were told that a new Palestinian web project has been launched. For a number of reasons, […]

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